jugal bone

Questions about jugal bone

What does jugal bone mean?

jugal bone means "the arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek".

What is another word for jugal bone?

Close synonyms include cheekbone, zygomatic bone, zygomatic, malar, malar bone. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is jugal bone a common word?

jugal bone is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.